"We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. The closer we get to mass incarceration and extreme levels of punishment, the more I believe it's necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and-perhaps-we all need some measure of unmerited grace."

-- Bryan Stevenson

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“Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.”
“I did 30 Minute Meals for five years on local television, and I earned nothing the first two years. Then I earned $50 a segment. I spent more than that on gas and groceries, but I really enjoyed making the show and I loved going to a viewer's house each week. I knew I enjoyed it, so I stuck with it even though it cost me.”
“Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.”

Source : "Amy Carter and Abbie Hoffman Win Acquittal, but They Want to Keep the C.i.a. on Trial" by Fred Bernstein, people.com. May 4, 1987.
“I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Now that you've grown up You can finally learn to be a child We made it to the end of the world But we'll never make it out alive.”
“Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.”
“I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.”

Source : "Aleksandra Mir Interview: Naming Tokyo". Interview with Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, aleksandramir.info. June 20, 2011.
“Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.”

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